About Faces

Mr. Olofsson's tenure as chief executive of the world's second-biggest retailer, after Wal-Mart Stores Inc., has been marred by profit warnings, strategic about-faces and a failed merger project. ❋ Christina Passariello (2012)

And even though Richard Heene pleaded guilty to pulling off one of biggest hoaxes ever, he ` s now doing one of the biggest about-faces ever. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's so sad how her blind ambition, parsing of facts, about-faces, two-faces, and changing of the rules has finally caught up with her. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For example, their numerous about-faces on the relative merits of economic stimulus versus austerity are all perfectly explicable once one understands that, in all circumstances, their goal is to support policies that help the rich and hurt everybody else. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or are they going to continue to add their demoralizing and often vicious clamor to Obama's incomprehensible about-faces on surveillance, reproductive rights, and Iraq ... until Obama's public image sinks and the election is lost? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Past right-wing Israeli leaders went through similar about-faces. ❋ Aluf Benn (2010)

The vocabulary of dance was transformed, as choreographers Mikhail Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky and his sister Bronislava, Leonide Massine, and George Balanchine wrought changes and sometimes about-faces on classical symmetry and bravura. ❋ Joel Lobenthal (2010)

New Delhi is also concerned with Kasab's legal maneuverings and about-faces. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Unlike the bombastic Christian leaders, with their wooden turns of phrase and almost instinctive propensity for bullshit, Jumblatt spoke bluntly—even if he was equally famous for shameless about-faces when he saw the balance of power shifting. ❋ Thanassis Cambanis (2010)

But how well does that work when candidates like Clinton and Edwards just say whatever they want to get elected, in complete and recent about-faces from their previous positions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This approach coming fast upon the previous recommendations only six months ago in which the Board suggested "A routine mammogram annually beginning at the age of 40." , should be the wake up call to all Americans that a move toward a government controlled medical insurance program will lead to dramatic, about-faces in what is perceived as good, safe-sided approached to your personal health care. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Tigers 'leaders were all killed after the government said it had run out of patience with their harsh tactics and about-faces. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Collier and Horowitz, who must have suffered serious intellectual whiplash when they traded their Che berets for Gipper pins, had brought their troupe to the Polish city of Krakow in order to teach the Solidarity government-to-be a thing or two about political about-faces. ❋ Unknown (2008)

While she's trying to make sense of Obama's political about-faces, you can also find PunditMom at MOMocrats and BlogHer, where she is a Contributing Editor for Politics and News. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I have, falteringly and with various intermediary about-faces and caveats, changed my mind about human spaceflight. ❋ Sean (2008)

And his reputation as a wishy-washy flip-flopper is, prewrit Tory ad campaign notwithstanding, entirely self-earned by his about-faces on policies he once declared his opposition to the universal child care benefit; GST cuts; carbon taxes. ❋ ALW (2008)

It was that those about-faces and many more were immortalized on the Internet, allowing foes to pass them around like baseball cards -- endlessly reliving the worst hits of the campaign. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If so, that's one of the biggest about-faces I've ever seen in the world of devoutness. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Last [week] she didn't even like him and then this she [put on] this [about face]" ❋ I'm Not An About Face (2014)

"Charlie Company, A-BOUT FACE!" *soldiers turn [swiftly] and uniformly to face the opposite direction.* *Onlookers are amazed with such [precision] and [sexyness]...* ❋ Person Who Can Think For Himself. (Adam) (2005)

[Platoon]! About Face! ❋ PFC Johnson (2005)

[I dig it] when [my lady] does an [about face] with me. ❋ Bud E Love (2003)

"The [whole] [bloody] [Tori] Party is completely arse about face!" ❋ Alex Quantashassle (2005)

When walking down the [hallway] Adam must do the about face as he sees the girl from the party he [kissed] and no longer [wishes] to talk too. ❋ Jcrave23 (2010)

You know J. Random Teenie-Singer, that blonde [Momon] purity queen whose [hymen] seems to be worshiped by half the music industry? Yeah, there are a lot of middle-aged men [slavering] for a year from now when she pulls her Age 18 About-Face. ❋ DancingKali (2011)

Last night I was out with my father. A woman walked by, she has a hot body, but [one hell] of an [ugly face]. My father stopped and stared for a minute, and then said to me: [nice legs], Shame About The Face!'" ❋ TheCraw2 (2009)

1. Fuck you Dave and I'm [sorry about your face]. 2. "Ok mum, [i gotta go]. [Sorry about your face]." And then [hang up the phone]. ❋ Lazyjarod (2010)

Person 1: I [hate] everyone who doesn’t like [apples]. Person 2: [Please], stop Panny Facing About. ❋ The NathanatorYT (2020)